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Florida Executes Curtis Windom, Marking Record 11th Execution of 2025

The execution caps a flurry of death warrants signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, sharpening debate over trial counsel competence as well as mental‑health evidence in capital cases.

FILE - Clouds hover over the entrance of the Florida State Prison in Starke, Fla., Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Curt Anderson, File)
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Curtis Windom, 59, is to be executed by lethal injection in Florida for the murders of three people
In this Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 photo, the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary is pictured in McAlester, Okla. Oklahoma plans to resume executions Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, after botching its last one and will use the same three-drug method as a Florida lethal injection scheduled for the same day.

Overview

  • Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. ET after a three‑drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison, officials said.
  • He was sentenced to death for the Nov. 7, 1992 murders of Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee in the Orlando area.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal on Aug. 27 following years of unsuccessful claims about ineffective counsel and unpresented mental‑health evidence.
  • Florida has carried out 11 of the nation’s 30 executions so far in 2025, with another in the state set for Sept. 17 for David Joseph Pittman.
  • Reactions from victims’ families were divided, with Windom’s daughter and other relatives urging clemency while Davis’s sister described the punishment as long‑delayed closure.